2026 Zhou Wang: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	77	1229	1188	41	36	276	51565

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Canada Leader Award
2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to perceptual image processing and quality assessment
The Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering
The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Zhou Wang is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada and specializes in research across the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work prominently features subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their primary research topics include Image and Video Quality Assessment, Advanced Image Processing Techniques, Random Matrices and Applications, Statistical Methods and Inference, Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models, Advancements in Battery Materials, and Advanced Image Fusion Techniques.

Recent notable publications include:

Perceptual Quality Assessment of Colored 3D Point Clouds, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Engineering an Insoluble Cathode Electrolyte Interphase Enabling High Performance NCM811//Graphite Pouch Cell at 60 °C, 2022, Advanced Energy Materials
A Handbook of 2019-nCoV Pneumonia Control and Prevention, 2020, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Dual-salt assisted synergistic synthesis of Prussian white cathode towards high-capacity and long cycle potassium ion battery, 2023, Journal of Energy Chemistry
Dark Matter Search Results from 1.54 Tonne · Year Exposure of PandaX-4T, 2025, Physical Review Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Zhou Wang are:

Qiuhong Wang
Honglei Su
Jilei Liu
Zihao Bo
Zhaokan Cheng

Zhou Wang has published extensively in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Physical Review Letters
Research Square (Research Square)

The scientist has also contributed a book publication titled Image Analysis and Recognition in 2020, published by Springer Science+Business Media.

Awards received include:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2018), Academy of Science
IEEE Fellow (2014), for contributions to perceptual image processing and quality assessment
Membership in The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Best Publications

A universal image quality index

Zhou Wang;A.C. Bovik

7435
Citations
Multiscale structural similarity for image quality assessment

Z. Wang;E.P. Simoncelli;A.C. Bovik

7011
Citations
Mean squared error: Love it or leave it? A new look at Signal Fidelity Measures

Zhou Wang;A.C. Bovik

3905
Citations
Video Quality Assessment Based on Structural Distortion Measurement

Zhou Wang;Zhou Wang;Ligang Lu;Alan C. Bovik

1629
Citations
Modern image quality assessment

Zhou Wang;Al Bovik

1536
Citations
Progressive switching median filter for the removal of impulse noise from highly corrupted images

Zhou Wang;D. Zhang

1534
Citations
Information Content Weighting for Perceptual Image Quality Assessment

Zhou Wang;Qiang Li

1506
Citations
Multi-scale structural similarity for image quality assessment

Zhou Wang;Eero P. Simoncelli;Alan C. Bovik

1487
Citations
No-reference perceptual quality assessment of JPEG compressed images

Zhou Wang;H.R. Sheikh;A.C. Bovik

1202
Citations
Why is image quality assessment so difficult

Zhou Wang;Alan C. Bovik;Ligang Lu

1061
Citations
Perceptual Quality Assessment for Multi-Exposure Image Fusion

Kede Ma;Kai Zeng;Zhou Wang

1058
Citations
Image Quality Assessment: From Error Measurement to Structural Similarity

Zhou Wang;Alan C. Bovik;Hamid R. Sheikh;Eero P. Simoncelli

874
Citations
Blind Image Quality Assessment Using a Deep Bilinear Convolutional Neural Network

Weixia Zhang;Kede Ma;Jia Yan;Dexiang Deng

809
Citations
Complex Wavelet Structural Similarity: A New Image Similarity Index

M.P. Sampat;Zhou Wang;S. Gupta;A.C. Bovik

755
Citations
Waterloo Exploration Database: New Challenges for Image Quality Assessment Models

Kede Ma;Zhengfang Duanmu;Qingbo Wu;Zhou Wang

719
Citations
Objective Quality Assessment of Tone-Mapped Images

H. Yeganeh;Zhou Wang

682
Citations
Blind measurement of blocking artifacts in images

Zhou Wang;A.C. Bovik;B.L. Evan

677
Citations
On the Mathematical Properties of the Structural Similarity Index

D. Brunet;E. R. Vrscay;Zhou Wang

626
Citations
End-to-End Blind Image Quality Assessment Using Deep Neural Networks

Kede Ma;Wentao Liu;Kai Zhang;Zhengfang Duanmu

578
Citations
Reduced-reference image quality assessment using a wavelet-domain natural image statistic model

Zhou Wang;Eero P. Simoncelli

573
Citations
41 OBJECTIVE VIDEO QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Zhou Wang;Hamid R. Sheikh;Alan C. Bovik

557
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kede Ma City University of Hong Kong

Alan C. Bovik The University of Texas at Austin

Shiqi Wang City University of Hong Kong

Eero P. Simoncelli New York University

Weisi Lin Nanyang Technological University

Yuming Fang Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics

David Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Magdy M. A. Salama University of Waterloo

Lei Zhang Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Siwei Ma Peking University

External Links

Personal website of Zhou Wang Google Scholar page

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